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People From Franklin County, Kentucky: People From Frankfort, Kentucky, Edwin P. Morrow, Miss Elizabeth, Tom Colten, George Graham Vest |
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English |
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Paperback |
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96 |
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2010-05-11 |
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1155979109 |
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Books LLC |
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0.33 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.2 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Frankfort, Kentucky, Edwin P. Morrow, Miss Elizabeth, Tom Colten, George Graham Vest, George C. Wolfe, William P. Sanders, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, William Wirt Adams, Montgomery Blair, Hugh Rodman, Thomas Baltzell, Archer Prewitt, Paul Sawyier, Martin D. Hardin, John Cummins Edwards, Isham Talbot, Thomas Carlin, Robert Humphreys, George Washington Triplett, William H. Hunter, Bryan Owsley. Excerpt: Albert Taylor Bledsoe Albert Taylor Bledsoe (November 9, 1809 December 8, 1877) was an Episcopal priest, attorney, professor of mathematics, and officer in the Confederate army and was best known as a political apologist for the Confederate States of America .Early Life and Education Albert Taylor Bledsoe was born on November 9, 1809 in Frankfort, Kentucky, the oldest of five children of Moses Owsley Bledsoe and Sophia Childress Taylor (who was a relative of President Zachary Taylor ). He was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1825 to 1830, where he was a fellow cadet of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee . After serving two years in the United States Army, he studied law and theology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and received his M.A. and LL.M. In 1836. he married Harriet Coxe of Burlington NJ, and they had seven children, four of whom survived childhood.College Professor and Mathematician Bledsoe in his lectures at the University of Virginia would frequently "interlard his demonstration of some difficult problem in differential or integral calculus--for example, the lemniscata of Bernouilli--with some vigorous remarks in the doctrine of States' rights ". His book The Philosophy of Mathematics was one of the earliest American works on mathematics and includes chapters on Descartes , Leibnitz , and Newton .Clergyman In 1835, Bledsoe becam...
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